TELEGRAM TO THE REVOLUTIONARY MILITARY COUNCIL OF THE EASTERN FRONT

Published:First published on February 23, 1938, inPravdaNo. 53.

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19. VII. 1919

RevolutionaryMilitary Council, Eastern FrontSimbirsk

Onmy behalf please congratulate the 2nd and 5th
armies on their
victories.[1]Concrete measures against the
guerrilla methods should be discussed in detail with
political workers and carried out. Report results.

LeninChairman, Council of Defence

[1]Leninis referring to the capture of Zlatoust by the 5th Army
(July 13, 1919), and of Ekaterinburg (now Sverdlovsk) by the
2nd Army on July 14, 1919.